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(Thank you John!)

For two decades, brand design obeyed a clean, clinical commandment: Thou shalt use sans‑serifs. Helvetica, then Gotham, then Proxima Nova and their countless descendants became the uniform of credibility. They whispered “modern,” “clear,” and “trustworthy.” But in a sea of identical minimalist wordmarks, a new question emerges: when everyone looks trustworthy, who actually looks memorable? This is …

Local studio Laboratorio de Arquitectura has completed a house with a design geared towards the use of custom concrete blocks in Querétaro, Mexico. Read more

London studio Reed Watts has completed a visitor centre for the medieval Ightham Mote manor house in Kent, creating an exposed timber and hempcrete structure that mimics the Grade I-listed building. Read more

Next in our review of 2025, we select 10 of the best videos produced by Dezeen this year, including  look inside postmodern landmark The Cosmic House and a sculptural exhibition transforming cardboard into icy, crystalline forms. Read more

Dezeen’s top five houses of the month for December include a multi-generational home in Vietnam and a minimalist house in Portugal with two recording studios. Read more

Creativity is often imagined as a lightning strike from the mind, but in practice, it is more like a carefully cultivated garden. The soil, the tools, and the daily tending determine what grows. For designers, this garden is the physical and digital environment in which we work. The monitor setup, the choice of a note …

Boston architecture studio Payette has completed an academic building in central Pennsylvania called ECoRE, which features a sculptural form and facades wrapped in reddish brick and metal fins. Read more

Architecture practice Studio Plyš has renovated a 19th-century cottage at the edge of the Bohemian Forest in the Czech Republic, repairing its original stone and timber structure with additions in plywood, concrete and fibre cement. Read more